Madge Bellamy Biography

Fast Facts

• In 1928, she eloped to Tijuana with a Los Angeles bond broker, but their marriage only lasted four days
• Started seriously studying to be an actress at the age of 15
• Made her stage debut when she was only five years old
• Appeared in several New York theater productions, including "Dear Brutus," Dream Girl" and "Peg O' My Heart," and the road show of "Pollyanna․"
• Was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after she fired three shots at her boyfriend for leaving her for a model, but she claimed she was only trying to scare him and received a six-month suspended sentence
• Though she had roles in 10 talking pictures, including the seminal 1932 horror film "White Zombie," she found her greatest success as a silent film actress
• One of her most celebrated roles was in the classic "The Iron Horse," in which she played an aristocratic girl who was captured and raised by bandits
• A Darling of the Twenties, her autobiography, was published a month after her death
• Lived in a replica of a Spanish castle at the height of her fame
• Starred in Fox's first-ever talkie, "Mother Knows Best․"